Michael Chabon Quotes

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

I really just want to make Karl Pilkington the new messiah.

The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.

There's no greater model, in my view, than Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ-" "Is Not here right now," the man in black replied,"and even if he were, he could not save you.

Jesus Chris was more than man.

Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.

I’m a nobody telling everybody about Somebody who can save anybody.

The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.

We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.

Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.

I am a 'little messiah' walking on earth.

Like a hero in a dream, Christ came and He rescued me.

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the same manner, or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground.

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.

I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career.

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.

If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!

How Sweet the name of Jesus... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace.

At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good, and [he] was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship.

The only figure in history who endures is Jesus.